Greetings unto THL Richard Morgan of Cumberland, Dragon; Lord Emrys Eustace, Rouge Scarpe; and the
commenting members of the Midrealm College of Heralds; from Lord Paul Wickenden of Thanet, Escutcheon.

Here are the March 1997 submissions for your consideration and commenting. All commentary should be sent to the
Rouge Scarpe Herald, Lord Emrys Eustace, by June 1, 1997, with copies to Dragon and myself. Unless otherwise stated, all name
submissions will accept minor changes to grammar and/or spelling.

Per bend azure and sable, in dexter a Wake knot bendwise
Or, in sinister an increscent moon argent.

The attached documentation is quite extensive but follows
the suggestions made by Fause Losenge when this device was
returned on the original return. As acting Rouge Scarpe
(Dmitrii Volkovich) instructed the client to say, "this is the
form that was recommended when my previous name
submission was returned." To summarize: Antolin is a
plausible variant of Anatolio; Tunante is an archaic Spanish
noun derived from a similarly archaic verb tunar ("to
wander"); and Treburgos is a plausible Castillianization of a
British/Cornish town of Treborough. The client cares most
about meaning and sound and asks that the grammar and
spelling be corrected.

There are some stylistic problems with the device (the
knot throughout and a increscent moon in her plentitude) that
make me twitch. The client states that he would also accept
(as an alternate): Per bend azure and sable, in dexter a wake
knot bendwise Or, in sinister two icicles argent. It is not the
practice of the College to accept "alternate" device
submissions and this is provided solely for your information.

The client claims that the name has been previously
submitted. I can find no indication that it is in process or has
been registered.

4) Gianetta Andreini da Vicenza

(Tree-Girt-Sea)

New Name and Device (F)

Per fess gules and azure fretty, three popinjays in chief
fesswise Or.

Gianetta is documented to Florence in the 14th and 15th
centuries by Rhian Lyth, "Italian Renaissance Women's
Names." Andreini is the surname of an actor who performed
in c1558, according to Duchartre, The Italian Comedy, p.
70. Vicenza is the name of an Italian city which was at war
with Venice in 1404, according to Black, et al, The Cultural
Atlas of the Renaissance, p. 55. It is not certain is the "da"
is the proper preposition in this case for "of." The client
cares most about sound and language and asks that the
grammar and spelling of the name be corrected.

5) Guenhwyvar MacEwen

(Cleftlands)

New Device (Name Reg'd 4/91)

Azure, issuant from a trimount couped vert a demi ferret,
in chief two mullets argent.

6) Ihon MacDhubhfaol

(Würm Wald)

New Name and Device (M)

Sable, a cross rayonnant argent, on a chief argent three
wolf's heads sable.

Ihon is cited from Freser, Names in Barbour's Bruce and
dated to 13th century as a variant of Ian. MacDhubhfaol is
constructed and meant to mean "son of the dark/black wolf."
It is created from the words dubh/dhubh meaning "dark" and
faol meaning "wolf." The construction is based on models
found in FitzGarret, "A Good Mac is Hard to Find," p. 23.
The client wants the grammar and spelling corrected for the
intended meaning in Scots Gaelic.

A more likely pattern for the surname would be MacFaol
Dhuibh, as in the patronymic of Cameron of Lochiel
(MacDhomhnuill Dhuibh) found in Black, Surnames of
Scotland, p. 485. But I can do no better than this.

The wolf's heads are orbed and langued gules if anyone
thinks this detail is worth mentioning and the "cross
rayonnant" appears to be a cross with a sun behind it
radiating gules and tenné (i.e., orange) rays. I am unfamiliar
with this charge and suspect it is not registerable. Can
anyone assist?

7) Jesse ap Cedifor

(Greyhope)

New Name and Device (M)

Vert, a seawolf and on a chief Or, three paw prints gules.

The given name is cited as a Biblical name that is also the
client's mundane name. Cedifor is documented in Jackson, A
Celtic Miscellany, pp. 232, 318, 329, all dating the name to
1170. The client cares most about language and asks that the
name be corrected for grammar and spelling.

Withycombe, p. 175, says that Jesse was not used as a
christian name until after the Reformation. So we had better
stick to the mundane name allowance.

8) Julianna Hebért

(Iron Oak)

New Name and Device (F)

Argent, between a saltire gules, in chief a fleur-de-lis
azure, in sinister a catamount sejant guardant proper, in
base a scottish thistle proper, in dexter an anvil sable.

Julianna is undocumented (although the client's mundane
name is Julia). Hébert (note difference in spelling) is
documented to a temporal and locative grey area of 1627
Quebec in Tanguay, Dictionnaire Généalogique des Familles
Canadiennes, Vol IV, p. 476.

The French spelling appears to be Julia, or Julienne (both
saint's names in period), according to Dauzat, Noms et
Prenoms, p. 348. Ibid, p. 320, also has Hébert (note
different spelling) as a variant of Harbert and the 13th
century name Herbot. I suggest that the client has the
spelling wrong as even her documentation shows the name to
be spelled Hébert (which makes more sense in French
anyway).

The blazon is the client's. The device is subject to several
different insta-boings™ (I see quartered arms, slot-machine,
trian aspect, complexity count of ten, excessive naturalism) --
can you spot any others?

9) Meave de Clare

(Jaravellir)

New Name (F)

Meave is a variant spelling of Maeve and found in
Coghlan, Grehan, and Joyce, Book of Irish Names, p. 26 and
is undated. De Clare is an Anglo-Irish family name found in
Richter, Medieval Ireland: The Enduring Tradition, p. 143,
dated to the 14th century. The client will NOT allow
changes to spelling or translation/meaning.

Ó Corráin & Maguire, Irish Names, p. 135, do not
differentiate between Maeve and Meave, describing both as
anglicizations. The non-anglicized modern form is Meabh so
I find the client's request more likely to fly although the
older Medb would be best. De Cléir is mentioned by
MacLysaght, Surnames of Ireland, p. 45.

10) Micheline du Follet

(Cleftlands)

New Name and Device (F)

Per fess Or and vert in pale two lions counter-couchant
counterchanged.

Micheline is documented to the 12th century on page 298
of an unidentified source. Follet is found in Dauzat, Noms et
Prenoms, p. 261, and is undated as a surname derived from
the French word fou ("insane"). The client cares most about
language and meaning.

Dauzat, Noms et Prenoms, p. 433, lists Michelin (the
feminine of which would be Micheline) but does not date it.

11) Mór Dúin Ruaid

(Castel Rouge)

Name and Device Resubmission (F)

Per pale azure and argent a lacy knot, on a chief three
triskeles all counterchanged.

The original submission was returned by kingdom for
problems with the name (Móra ó Dún-ruadh). Both name
and device were resubmitted but the name was lost in our
Black Hole™ and the device went aimlessly up to Laurel
where it was returned for lack of a name. This submission is
thus the third attempt and we wish it god speed!

This submission is based on an option suggested by Fause
Losenge, however his documentation is confusing as he
discredits Mór as a given name, saying it is "clearly a
locative byname" according to Woulfe, p. 269. He does find
the Dún to be plausible as shown by Room, pp. 50-2 with
the genitive form being Dúin. The last element is an
adjective ("red") which is spelled in an "older spelling." The
overall result is a name meaning Mór of Castel Rouge, as far
as I can tell and which has Fause Losenge's endorsement.

12) Raul de Boer of Border Downs

(Border Downs)

Name and Device Resubmission (M)

Argent, a reversed cross portate voided and in chief an ax
sable.

The client's originally-submitted name (Raol de Boar) and
device were returned in kingdom at some indeterminate
earlier date. The current submission is documented from
some of our favorites. Raul is in Dunkling and Gosling,
Facts on File Dictionary of First Names, p. 231 as "Spanish
form of Ralph, used to some extent in the U.S." Ralph is
then shown to be period in The Book of Saints which has
several Saints Ralph (pp. 500-1). De Boer is documented as
a Dutch surname in the Dictionary of American Family
Names, p. 49. No dates are provided for any of the elements
(except the Sts Ralph). This name is in need of an ICU, can
anyone assist? The Shire of Border Downs, by the way, was
registered 1/94. The client cares most about sound.

13) Reinmar the Alchemist

(Würm Wald)

New Device (Name Reg'd 1/94)

Sable, a sun Or within twelve keys in annulo, points
outward argent.

I believe that the keys need to be better blazoned but I do
not know what would work (certainly "wards outward"
would be better than what is here).

14) Rutger van Groningen

(Three Hills)

New Name and Device (M)

A gyronny of six, sable and argent, issuant from the fess
point three acorns stemwise to the fess point Or, and three
oak leaves stemwise to the fess point vert.

This submission was pended on last month's ILoI for
missing forms (no name forms whatsoever) and no indication
of desired name. This problem has now been rectified.

Rutger is described as a common Dutch name and is
documented in Israel, The Dutch Republic, which includes
the name on a genealogical table. The Rutger listed there
was one of the people who signed the Compromise of the
Nobility in 1565-6. The latter element is the name of a
medieval Dutch town that was already "prosperous" in 1325,
according to Lucas, The Low Countries and the Hundred
Years War, p. 25. The client requests that the grammar and
spelling be corrected.

The blazon is the client's. My best guess is: Gyronny of
six, sable and argent, three acorns Or and three oak leaves
vert issuant from center.

15) Sofron Havrylovych Trakhtemyrivs'kyj

(Cleftlands)

New Name

The name is Ukrainian. The given name is documented
from Wickenden, Dictionary of Period Russian Names (On-Line), and is dated to the 14th century, having been found in
the birchbarks of Novgorod. A diminutive (Sofronko) is
found further south (Vlazhin) in 1495. Havrylovych is the
proper Ukrainian patronymic for the name Havrylo (found in
its Russian bastardization Gavrylo, in Wickenden, and dated
to our grey area of 1616). The last element is a locative
byname based on the name of the Trakhtemyriv monastery
and fortress (founded in the 6th century and still in existence
in the 15th century, according to the Encyclopedia of
Ukraine, pp. 255-6). The adjectival ending is appropriately
spelled for names during the 15th-17th centuries, according
to Holutiak-Hallick, Dictionary of Ukrainian Surnames, p.
17. The client will NOT allow changes. [n.b.: I consulted
on this submission and personally support it without
reservations]

16) Tannr Selsbarn Ketilsson

(Rokkehealden)

Name Change and Device Resubmission (M)

Or, three seals in annulo sable within a bordure vert.

This is a change from the client's currently registered
name (Damian le Gravenor, reg'd 1/93). The name elements
are all documented from Geirr Bassi, The Old Norse Name,
and the first element is found on p. 15. The second element
is a compound formed from the element sels- ("seal") on p.
27 and barna ("child") on p. 19 (although we cannot testify
about whether its construction is plausible). The last element
is a patronymic based on the given name Kitill, found on p.
12 and is correctly formed, according to an actual example
on p. 17. The client cares most about meaning and sound
and will NOT allow changes.

The client's device was returned due to lack of fees and
the lack of recognizability of the charges on Rouge Scarpe's
9/28/96 ILoAR.

17) Toke Magnusson

(Rokeclif)

Device Resubmission (Name in Process)

Purpure, a dexter hand inverted argent, in chief in fess an
annulet, an increscent moon, a roundel, a descrescent, and
an annulet, all argent.

The presence of four different charges in the chief is very
poor style and returnable and this device was returned by
Rouge Scarpe for the exact same problem on his 12/5/96
ILoAR, but it gets much worse....

18) Toke Magnusson

(Rokeclif)

New Badge (Name in Process)

Purpure, in fess an increscent and a decrescent and in
chief a roundel and in base an annulet, argent.

This is obvious slot-machine and subject to an insta-boing™.

19) Tormod the Red

(Jaravellir)

New Name and Device (M)

Per fess arched and debased sable and gules, a cross
formy fitchy Or.

Tormod is dated to the late 16th century by Grant, The
MacLeods: The History of a Clan 1200-1956, p. 129 and
while Gaelic is derived from the Old Norse Þormóðr.
Documentation of color in descriptive bynames is cited by
the example of Torquil Dubh in Ibid but the client wishes to
have the byname left in English. Otherwise, the client
requests that the grammar and spelling be corrected and cares
most about sound.

The emblazon is hardly divided on the fess. This is more
likely a mount gules and thus color on color.

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